PRIS (AFP) - Ligue 1 club Lyon have barred their supporters from attending away matches until further notice following the latest incident involving their fans led to the abandonment of Friday’s French Cup match with Paris FC.
The club said in a statement on Saturday that “more than ever we must eradicate hooliganism and ban all those who are enemies, by their acts, of football.”
It is the second match this season involving Lyon fans which has had to be abandoned -- their home league game with Marseille was called off after the later’s captain Dimitri Payet was hit on the head with a plastic bottle.
This week’s game saw flares fired off between the two sets of supporters and fighting around the stand containing the Lyon fans leading to people spilling onto the pitch and the referee called off the match at half-time.
Lyon were being held 1-1 by the Ligue 2 outfit.
The FFF’s disciplinary commission also issued a statement on Saturday saying it would meet early next week to discuss the incident.
“The subsequent disciplinary decisions will be taken the following week before the next round of the French Cup (the last 32 on Jan 2/3),” it said in a statement.
The latest bout of hooliganism came just a day after the French government announced new measures to combat the rising tide of violence in French football stadia.